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I thought I would share some of my favorite details of the red RSX that we recently completed. This car was a compilation of some of the most talented people I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. As of today this was the most involved customer project Jeff and I have ever taken on. I hope this post doesn’t come off conceited or pretentious, I simply want to share some of the things that may go unnoticed if you were to ever run into the car.
1. The car leaving our shop after three years.
2. The Mugen dive planes/canards. These are fairly rare pieces. They don’t carry a Mugen part number & were intended for the Taiyuku teams that used the Mugen Aero.
3. The backside of all of the panals are painted. We had to cut/splice the bumper & re-fiberglass it to mate up to the new widened fenders. This was fairly straight forward with the composite front bumper, but somewhat of a chore with the factory urethane rear bumper.
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4. The lower body line. This was a portion of the job that was very important to me. I’ve noticed a lot of times when people do custom wide bodies the factory body lines are often forgotten. The RSX has a very unique lower body line that sort of looks like a horizontal canine tooth. This had to be recreated & exaggerated to accommodate the wider fenders.
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5. Seam welded unibody. This was done in the Ford Motorsport style. One inch of weld, skip an inch & a half, one inch of weld.
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This isn't your blog, your work is not noteworthy. Go eat a dick. Thanks.
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6. White underside of the roof. This was something that Jeff & I had noticed when we were checking out a Prodrive S7 WRC. Prodrive cut all the webbing from the underside of the roof & painted it white. So we did the same. I’m not sure why Prodrive did this maybe to brighten the cabin. We also swapped the roof skin to a type R unit to get rid of the sunroof.
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7a. The underside of the hood. The owner opted to have the bottom of the hood painted matte black with the top being red. The Mugen hood is a quality race piece, but the detail finish leaves a lot to be desired. We ended up having to seam seal the perimeter of the hood and brought the red around the edge of the hood.
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I remember seeing this car somewhere else
very nice job desu
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7b. A lot of times people will get too creative with their panal hardware using spikes, or fancy bolts. We opted for good ol’ OEM painted bolts. I think when you look at the car 10 years from now you won’t be able to date it based on a current “build trend”.
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8. Bash bar & tow hook. The Mugen bumper wasn’t designed to be used with the USDM bumper bar. It’s common for people to source the JDM bar or just run no bar at all. For this car we also had to support a 30lb intercooler. So we built a custom piece that fits the bumper & is quite a bit safer than the USDM/JDM beam. This also required modifying the Mugen tow hook.
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Seems like a very nice build. What's it being used for? Hope it's not going to be just a show/drag car.
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track.
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so basically you swept the floor, took pictures and got in the way?
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Those are some shiny parts ya got there
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Clean looking build, man. I used to work at a shop that did similar stuff, though we rarely had the kind of paint and body finish that this car does. (Most of our clients were club racers who didn't feel like spending the cash to make shit shiny when it was gonna get thrashed on track anyway.)
Did you guys do everything or just the bodywork? I'm especially liking what I see of that cage, looks like whoever built it knew what they were doing. (Unlike 90% of the "race" Honda builds I see around.)
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